Morgan le Fay
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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If you don’t know Morgan le Fay from her sister Morgause, for example, you’re already behind the game compared with those deeply versed in all manner of Arthuriana.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2021
In the poem, it is her sister, Gawain’s aunt, the sorceress Morgan le Fay, who is ultimately revealed as the instigator of Gawain’s adventures, mostly in service of “mischief.”
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2021
In centuries of tales, from Morgan le Fay and Avalon in the Arthurian cycle to contemporary fantasies to Disney movies, fairies and their mysterious world have captured the imagination.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2020
She has existed since storytelling began, from Circe, the first witch in western literature, to Hecate, Morgan le Fay, Baba Yaga, the Weird Sisters, the Wicked Witch of the West and Hermione Granger.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2019
In the end they came to the inner chamber, where Morgan le Fay herself lay stretched upon her bed of glorious lard.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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